How to Remember Chinese Names: Bin, Chia, Ching, Goh, Kiat, Lim, Nee, Ong, Soon Wei

Bin - has been, in the bin, sin, win, bin will win, winning Mr Bin
Boon - a boon, a blessing
Cheong - ch(e)ong, long, Hong Kong, klong, pong, song, wrong
Chia - cheer Chia ... Kiat - cheer the cat
Ching - (Jingle bells), Ching, Chinese
Ching Nee - chimney
Choon - tune, choose, moon, loon, boon, croon,
Goh  - go
Ho - ho, ho!
Hwee - he is a wee (Scottish for small)
Keng - not a king but a keng, length
Kiat - cat - key at
Lee - be, see, sea, me, knee, agree, we, pea, pee, tea (tea with lee)
Leng - length
Lim - Bin - put the limb in the bin (on your way)
Lo (Swing Low, sweet chariot)
Ming - bling, king, ping, ring, sing, mingle, tingle, single
Mui - moo-ee, moo, new, glue, shoe, true, coo-ee
Nee - knee
Ng -
Ong - long, song
Sau - sauerkraut
Seh - say
Shiang - like Shanghai / She is anxious
Sim - simply wonderful, slim, simpering, Hymn, limb, dim, grim, grin, rim, Tim, Vim, whim
Soon - soon
Thong - bong, Kong, Hong Kong, long, wrong, song, klong
Wong - rhymes with long, song, wrong
Wei bin - the way to the bin
Xiu - she-oo, shoe, shoo, we, be
Yap - always yapping
Ying, as in bling

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